The yearly declassification of secret government papers under the "30 year rule" continues to produce interesting material – especially as far as Northern Irish history is concerned, as 30 years ago means 1987, right in the middle of The Troubles.…

It’s been fairly quiet on the blogging front this year (I have been working on a looong article, but it’s still not finished) so I’ll confine this list to a top three: Fake Irish News Review of Unapproved Routes by…

IHC’s e-book guide to Irish history has been translated into French, joining the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian versions already available. It’ll be uploaded to Amazon soon and is already on Apple, Scribd, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, with more distributers to…

I saw this advertised somewhere recently and as it seemed relevant to my teaching about Northern Ireland at the minute I ordered it and read it. It’s an attractively produced little volume with elegant typesetting and a number of well…

I was interested (is that the word?) to see Irish history was the example in the screenshot of Facebook in today’s Guardian article about how you now are warned if you’re about to repost unreliable information: The reference is to…

Prompted by my ongoing quest to identify the “six times [meaning six rebellions] during the last three hundred years” referred to in the 1916 Proclamation, “Mixed messages” (@SignsThe Reading) was kind enough to send me some photos of monuments in…